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HEAD  QUARTERS,  DEPARTMENT  No.  2. 
Tupelo,  Miss.,  July  10th,  1862. 

GENERAL     ORDERS,  J 

No.  96.  > 

I.    The  following  Article  of  War,  (94),  is  published  for  information  and  observ- 
ance in  this  Department : 
"  When  any  commissioned  officer  shall  die  or  be  killed  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 
federate State?,  the  Major  of  the  Regiment,  or  the  officer  doing^  the  Major's 
duty  in  his  absence,  or  in  any  post  or  garri.on,  the  second  officer  in  command, 
or  the  assistant  military  agent,  shall  immediately   secure   all  his  effects   or 
equipage,  then  in  camp  or  quarters,  and  shall  make  an  inventory  thereof,  and 
forthwith  transmit  the  same  to  the  office  of  the  Deparment  of  War,  to  the  end 
that  his  executors  or  administrators  may  receive  the  same." 
If  a  legal  administrator  or  family  connexion  be  present,  and  take  charge  of  the  ef- 
fects, it  will  be  so  stated  in  the  inventory  :  a  duplicate  of  which  inventory  will  also 
be  sent  to  these  Head  Quarters. 

II.  Inventories  of  the  effects,  or  money  of  deceased  non-commissioned  officers  and 
soldiers,  required  by  the  95th  Article  of  War,  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral by  the  Commander  of  the  company  to  which  the  deceased  belonged,  and  a  du- 
plicate of  the  same  to  the  Colonel  of  the  regiment.  Final  statements  of  pay, 
clothing,  etc.,  will  be  sent  with  the  inventories.  When  a  soldier  dies  at  a  post,  sta- 
tion or  hospital,  absent  from  his  company,  it  will  be  the  duty  of  his  immediate 
Commander,  or  Surgeon  to  furnish  the  required  inventory,  and  at  the  same  time 
forward  to  the  Commanding  officer  of  the  company,  to  which  the  soldier  belonged, 
a  report  of  his  death,  specifying  the  date,  place  and  cause;  to  what  time  he  was 
last  paid,  and  the  money  or  other  effects  possessed  at  the  time  of  his  decease  ;  which 
report  will  be  noted  on  the  next  muster-roll  of  the  company  to  which  the  man  be- 

h.ngcd.    Each  inventory  will  be  endorsed,  "  Inventory  of  the  effects  of ,  late 

of  Company  (— ), Regiment  of .who  died  at ,  the day  of 

1 186  —  ."    If  a  legal  representative  receive  the  effects,  it  will  be  so  stated  in 

the  report.    If  the  soldier  leave  no  effects  the  fact  will  be  reported, 

III.  Should  the  effects  of  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  soldier  not  be  administer- 
ed upon  within  a  short  period  after  his  decease,  they  shall  be  disposed  of  by  a 
Council  of  Administration,  under  the  authority  of  the  Commanding  officer  of  the 
Post,  and  the  proceeds  deposited  with  the  Paymaster,  to  the  credit  of  the  Confederate 
States,  until  they  shall  be  claimed  by  the  legal  representatives  of  the  deceased. 
The  receipts  of  the  Paymaster  will  be  taken  in  triplicate,  one  of  which  will  be  for- 
warded to  the  Chief  Paymaster  of  the  Department,  and  another  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector  General  of  the  Army,  which  last  will  be  accompanied  by  a  certified 
statement,  (by  the  Council  and  Commanding  officer),  or  account  of  ihe  proceeds  re- 
ceipted for.  In  cases  where  money  is  found  in  possession  of  the  deceased,  and  there 
is  no  legal  representative  present  or  convenient  to  receive  it,  it  will  at  once  be  turn- 
ed over  to  some  Paymaster,  whose  receipts  will  be  taken  and  transmitted  as  hcrc- 
inbeforo  prescribed. 

By  command  of      General  Bragg. 

THOMAS    JORDAN, 

Chief  of  Staff. 


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